Rational Software Platform for Systems

Companies developing and manufacturing products or integrating systems in industries, such as automotive, aerospace and defense, telecommunications networks, or medical devices, are under similar pressures to innovate.

Each must cope with growing complexity to improve quality, to reduce costs, to increase productivity, and to comply with regulations in a rapidly changing, increasingly globalized marketplace.

The IBM® Rational® Software Platform for Systems provides integrated systems engineering and embedded software development solutions to help manufacturers and integrators build the systems and products that meet their business’ objectives and their customers’ needs.

Rational Software Platform for Systems includes:

• Product, project, and portfolio management solutions that help increase project success through best practice guidance and measurement.

• IBM Rational Focal Point™ product and portfolio management software, can help you improve product decisions throughout the lifecycle from product conception to delivery.

• Enterprise architecture management solutions that help connect the business and technology needs of an organization.

• IBM Rational System Architect® is a family of solutions that enables you to build a business and enterprise architecture.

• Requirements definition and management solutions that offer best practices to help you save both time and money.

• IBM Rational DOORS® is a family of requirements management solutions for advanced systems and software development.

• Integrated change and release management solutions that improve lifecycle traceability and software delivery.

• Modeling solutions that let you model, design, and build resilient architectures for SOA, systems and applications.
  IBM Rational Rhapsody® is a family of UML-based and SysML-based model-driven development solutions for real-time or embedded systems.

• Quality management solutions that ensure software functionality, reliability, and performance in development and production.
  IBM Rational Quality Manager is a lifecycle quality management solution.

• IBM Rational Team Webtop™ provides a single view plus data mashups from disparate sources to help you improve and streamline your lifecycle management process.

• Analyze system safety using UML
• Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios
• Achieving true collaboration in global development

• Executive Brief: "Turning product development into competitive advantage"
• Model-driven systems development—delivering innovation with demonstrable business value (434KB)
• Requirements engineering solutions for developing smarter products (489KB)
• Align product strategy to business goals using IBM Rational Focal Point software for product portfolio management (454KB)
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